COVID and Counterfeiting, A Perfect Pair

With fake goods making up 2.5% of global trade at a cost to economies in the trillions, the sale and manufacturing of counterfeit items was thriving way before COVID-19 struck. Still, recent evidence connects the onset of the pandemic with an even greater proliferation of illicit goods.  Counterfeiting isn’t a product of today’s complex trading […]

Entrupy Spots Superfakes

Once a niche industry serving bargain hunters and rugged individualists, resale is now unquestionably mainstream. According to the 2020 Resale Report from Thred up, online sales of secondhand goods was projected to grow nearly 70 percent between 2019 and 2021. During the same time period, the broader retail sector was projected to shrink 15 percent.  […]

Counterfeit Handbags Flood The Retail And Resale Market

In the summer of 2018, US Customs and Border Protection filed charges against 33 people for trafficking in counterfeit goods. Government agents seized 22 shipping containers full of fake designer handbags and belts with a potential retail value of a half a billion dollars. Counterfeiting is big business. As quickly as one ring is shut […]

AI: A Data Approach to IP Rights Enforcement against Counterfeiters

On January 31, 2019, Entrupy’s CEO Vidyuth Srinivasan will be speaking at the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s conference Artificial Intelligence: Intellectual Property Policy Considerations. Artificial Intelligence: A Data Approach to IP Rights Enforcement against Counterfeiters One of the most exciting innovations currently happening in the intellectual property sector is the advancement of using […]